[linux-dvb] Re: stability problems + closing and re-opening the frontend

[Johannes Stezenbach <js@convergence.de>]

Oliver Endriss wrote:
> On Friday 02 April 2004 18:11, Gregor Lawatscheck wrote:
> > Yes it's possibly a firmware bug introduced after 0.9.4 because that 
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> > release doesn't show the behavior or at least not within 1000 channel 
> > changes or signal-less operation.
> > ...
> > Johannes Stezenbach at convergence amongst a few others is 
> > a firmware wizard and said in the thread: "IIRC Ralph said that he tried 
> > to debug this in the firmware, and
> > the ARM just hangs inside a RTSL call. There isn't much we can do then."
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> 
> Hmm, why does the ARM not hang with the 0.9.4 driver?
> Has the RTSL been changed, too?

Yes, but it also hangs with the old RTSL. The new firmware
uses a differerent Method to get TS data, so probably
it hits some RTSL bug that the old firmware didn't.

But it's also possible that there is a firmware bug which
we were unable to spot yet. Maybe dvbBug.c will help.

Johannes


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